The Great Accelerator - Softcover

Virilio, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745653898 ISBN 13: 9780745653891

Verlag: Polity, 2012

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Críticas

Returning to themes from previous books such as The Future of the Instant, Paul Virilio’s indispensable new work, The Great Accelerator, considers history, privacy, and, especially, speedup. If our accelerated postmodern culture is a closed circuit, Virilio asks, are not speed and light reconfigured as ‘dromology’ and traditional philosophy as too ‘slow’? Thought-provoking and contentious, The Great Accelerator will be a widely discussed book.
John Armitage, Northumbria University

Paul Virilio’s The Great Accelerator continues his interrogations of speed and time forecasting the end of history, time and knowledge as we once knew them. Futuristic to the zero point, Virilio dazzles, illuminates and provokes as we speed through his latest vision of what is to come and what’s happening now.
Douglas Kellner, UCLA, author of Cinema Wars and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy

 

Reseña del editor

In his latest book, Paul Virilio – the leading theorist of our obsession with technology, speed and power – rewrites ‘The Book of Exodus’, but the exodus he talks about is a closed-circuit exodus within a cramped world where reduction in human stocks will suddenly look like the only solution to the lockdown of history.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745653898
• ISBN 13: 9780745653891
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 104